Canada’s Productivity Challenge Starts with People.
The Productivity Project is a national research and policy initiative examining how Canada can better develop, recognize, mobilize, and renew human capital to strengthen productivity, opportunity, and long-term prosperity.
A cross-sector initiative focused on Canada’s productivity future.
The Productivity Project brings together research, policy, business, postsecondary, labour-market, and community expertise to examine one question: how can human capital drive Canada’s productivity?
Why Productivity is a Human Capital Challenge
Canada’s productivity challenge is not only about investment, technology, or firm performance. It is also about people — and whether Canada has the systems to help them build, apply, demonstrate, and renew the capabilities needed in a changing economy.
The Productivity Project examines how learning connects to work, how capability becomes opportunity, and how human potential is converted into economic value. Learn why productivity matters.
What We Study
Human Capital & Productivity
Learning, Skills, Capability Development
Entry-Level Work and Career Pathways
Labour-Market Disruption
Recognition and Open Learning Systems
Regional Human Capital Systems
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Bring evidence into the productivity conversation.
The Evergreen Model
How can we design and scale a development system optimized for developing adaptive capability?
How AI is Reshaping Entry-Level Jobs
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